• IPLCs occupy 30% of the planet and 80% of global biodiversity in their habitats.
• Seed collection from the wild serves as a foundation for plant multiplication.
• Community Seed Bank is crucial for food security and sustainable livelihood.
• Seed sowing festival is a tradition of exchanging seeds and ensuring...
MANIPUR HAS been embroiled in ethnic strife between the Meiteis and Kuki communities for almost a year, disrupting normalcy, development, and the lives of locals. The violence, frequent economic blockades, and increased tax collection have adversely affected economic activities in the region, raising numerous concerns regarding administrative development and...
Assam home guard, Borsing Bay refusing a hefty bribe from drug dealer in exchange of safe passage of high-quality crystal methamphetamine said to be valued at Rs 12 Crore is a stimulating case of sincerity and call of duty combined. The story made headlines in national and regional news...
BORN AND BROUGHT UP in the United States, besides relinquishing the lucrative job of teaching piano, music theory and music appreciation in the prestigious Houghton College, Buffalo, New York, for Margaret Anne (nee Kautz) Shishak leaving America and coming to the jungle of Patkai infested by insects and mosquitoes,...
In August 2014 when the then newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi had named Ravindra Narayan Ravi as the government’s new interlocutor to the Naga talks, a number of groups, most significantly, the NSCN-IM — the government’s main negotiating partner — raised objections. The appointment as interlocutor of a person “well...
TANGKHUL-NURABI, a dance drama played during the Lai Haraoba festival with reference to the two mythological figures, one is that of Nongpok Ningthou and Nurabi, representing Panthoibi, their love episode, that have central significance in the Meitei/Meetei community ritual, this year, left many disgusted, including the Meitei/Meeteis.According to Rekha...
In the mid year of 1918, during the Kuki punitive measure , blood soaked history was being written at Ngahui village (Awangkasom), in the northern part of Ukhrul district. Naga and Kuki scholars, and researchers differ on the appropriateness of naming the Kuki punitive measure, but the collective historical...
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